Unit 61elk.

Over off of houser road. 1st day of hunting heard a few saw a few. Came close to what we thought was a big bull. But never saw him. Got to about 60 yards . Then caught our wind...Mr. mountain... any good ones you called in?
 
LIK2HNT said:
You up there calling for people, or up there on your own to observe and take photos?
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Just on my own calling. I don't have a tag till 4th season in another unit so I decided to take off the other evening. Heard a couple bugles and called back and they responded. Got them to about 70.
 
After today I sure wish I had an early rifle tag or first season.
Holy **** how many points does it take to draw archery or ML?
Every person is within shouting distance of divide road and NOBODY is where the elk are from what I saw today!!
 
mikey1971 said:
Over off of houser road. 1st day of hunting heard a few saw a few. Came close to what we thought was a big bull. But never saw him. Got to about 60 yards . Then caught our wind...Mr. mountain... any good ones you called in?
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I have no idea where that is. Must be in the south side?
 
Grouse hunting hasn’t been bad either!
Got some good rain and cool temps the last couple days.
Went from powdered dust to packed and even muddy in spots.
 
MountainSqwabler said:
I guess I'm screwing with them there elk, standing in a road next to my truck with a cow call and they come running in.
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I’ve got no problem with someone up there calling from a road a little. If I didn’t have a broken ankle I’d be up there hunting grouse and turkey and not from a road. I also wouldn’t be in area’s I consider to be prime elk hunting. I’ve had a couple of ‘disagreements’ with hunters who had tags but weren’t far off a road while grouse and turkey hunting. I tried to give them a few tips but they weren’t listening.
 
BeanMan said:
I’ve got no problem with someone up there calling from a road a little. If I didn’t have a broken ankle I’d be up there hunting grouse and turkey and not from a road. I also wouldn’t be in area’s I consider to be prime elk hunting. I’ve had a couple of ‘disagreements’ with hunters who had tags but weren’t far off a road while grouse and turkey hunting. I tried to give them a few tips but they weren’t listening.
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You can't appease everyone. Even when you're just enjoying mother nature you're gonna upset someone. Hope those hooves are healing up well, Bean.
 
Soo. Update on our late archery elk hunt so far. Saw and been hearing a bunch. But don't seem to be hot. Not interacting ect..From what I've and few other hunters experienced in the past few days. Went to town today to get a hotel clean up and re energize..;) thinking hoping that it will get better:))
 
Soo. 2nd half of the hunt report.... elk 35 -- us 0.. successfull hunt with no kill. :(. Had 35 or so close calls. Bad luck or mistakes took place. Was in elk every am and pm. Few times during the mid day. Went deep and went close. Lots of ups and downs. Saw things ,heard things,that I'll never forget, spent every minute with long time hunting partner. My brother Eric. Saw the biggest elk we will most likely see. 370ish chase him 3 different days. Saw 2 other 300's had a shots at 3 different smaller bulls. Most elk action we will most likely be in. Just the stars didn't line up for us. You win some you lose some. It was tough but we will look back and say. " that was cool , let's do that again""":).
 
mikey1971 said:
Soo. 2nd half of the hunt report.... elk 35 -- us 0.. successfull hunt with no kill. :(. Had 35 or so close calls. Bad luck or mistakes took place. Was in elk every am and pm. Few times during the mid day. Went deep and went close. Lots of ups and downs. Saw things ,heard things,that I'll never forget, spent every minute with long time hunting partner. My brother Eric. Saw the biggest elk we will most likely see. 370ish chase him 3 different days. Saw 2 other 300's had a shots at 3 different smaller bulls. Most elk action we will most likely be in. Just the stars didn't line up for us. You win some you lose some. It was tough but we will look back and say. " that was cool , let's do that again""":).
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Thank you sir for reporting back!
Sorry you didn’t connect!
 
good report! Sorry it didn’t play out better! But atleast you have good attitude about it. Sounds like a good hunt regardless.
 

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